The Gavelyte, September 1910

CEDAl{VILL!D COLLEGE. 108 fir t time since Billie's father found him there in their play house when children, she raised her lips for him to ki s. Frotn here he had been carried away as the dead. Today he was leaving the place he loved most in childhood in fullness of young manhood-she crying as if her heart would break, following by his side thot him dead. Today she was walking by his side, happy and contented - with assurance of a beautiful future. The Y. W. C. A. form meetings. We listened to some Conference. excellent addresses and I will try to give a few thoughts from some of FLORENCE WILLIAMSON, '11. these. Saturday morning President Hunt of Denison University addressed The most enjoyable pericd of my the conference on "The Power of the vacation was the one spent at the Y. Holy Spirit." "There are three orders W. C. A. conference at Granville. We I of Christianity. The ordinary, the were splendidly entertained by Denison consecrated and the optional. The University and the people of Granville. holy spirit is not to be reserved for I wish that every Y. W. C. A. member special emergencies. It is always might have enjoyed the good things we near and all that is necessary is to open did. the way. There are somethings in the The president's council was perhaps heart He can not live with. Count on the most helpful to me. There I God's being faithful if you do your learned much concerning Y. W. ·C. A. J part. God gives no power to a purpose– work, the responsibility of a president, I Jess life. We must put in all we have, and ne':"' plans f~ the coming year. I and God makes up the deficit. We are One thmg I was glad to learn was the helpless. The might power that ~~planation of the_ofte_n asked ~uestion, I raises the dead to life is available to why membership 1s restricted to I you and me, why try to live alone with– members of Evangelical churches?" out this help." The reason is that these churches have Sabbath morning Rev. McConnell formed a federation, which all churches preached from the text, "ye shall were invited to join, which upholds Y. walk and not faint." "An ordinary W. C. A. work. Some churches re- man does splendidly in time of a crisis. fused to join. Therefore when a girl We can dispense with the sudden is excluded from membership for this , bursts of glory, better than the daily reason, it is not a personal objection, I routine. Success depends on doing the but by virtue of her joining a church ! things anybody can do. Prayer is outside the federation she excluded her- I walking with God day after day. The self and her first duty is to her church II doctr\ne .that effects the bystanders is always. Other points like this were the kmdly face and good deed. explain d in full. Dr. Campbell of Dayton addressed The evenings were given up to plat- the conference on Tuesday evening.